Converting VC++6 to VC++8

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Hi Experts,

I have a set of VC++6(Microsoft Visual Studio 6)projects. I want to convert the projects into VC++8(Microsoft Visual Studio 2008). While converting the projects I am getting lots of linking and type mismatch error. Can you please tell the steps to convert the project from VC++6 to VC++8.

Posted 2-Mar-12 1:48am

Arun India

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You're just going to have to muscle through it, and resiolve them one at a time. Most of the errors/warnings you get probably relate to deprecated versions of C runtime functions. There is a way to "ignore" the warnings regarding the C runtime functions. It involves a pragma setting (google is your friend), but the BEST way to approach it is to actually fix the code.

Posted 2-Mar-12 1:50am

#realJSOP

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Arun India 2-Mar-12 7:56am

Thank you so much John. Also could you please let me know how to link a library to project in VC++8(I am new to VC++8).

#realJSOP 2-Mar-12 8:01am

Why would you think it would be any different than what you did in VC6?

Arun India 2-Mar-12 8:20am

John, I am basically from C sharp development and new to VC++ environment. So could you please tell the linking of library in VC project?

#realJSOP 4-Mar-12 6:26am

It's been seven years since I did any unmanaged code. Google is your friend.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 4-Mar-12 1:26am

Agree, a 5.
--SA

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Chandrakantt · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-02T01:58:00

Yes while converting a VC6 solution to VC8, there are chances to get lot of linker and type mismatch errors. For this you have to verify the include and libraries include folders present under "Tools->Projects & Solutions->VC++ Directories". There is not particular steps for this conversion, Visual Studio does this automatically. After conversion you have to resolve this issues, its basically comes because of wrong include files or wrong library linking. So take one error, Google it and once you solve one error you will see a lot of errors has gone..